Part of my standard training for Product Owners is to help them understand how they relate to everyone else in an Agile/Scrum world. Hence the drawing below. Project Community Diagram The Product Owner is not part of the team since their role is to ask for more to keep productive tension in the system. I like the way [...] Continue reading »

I'm writing about a talk given by Paul Hodgetts at Agile 2009 called "ScrumMasters Considered Harmful - Where Did We Go Wrong?" (Link to full presentation). So, why doesn't the title of this blog post match? The title is really catchy, but the the talk was more of an investigation and discussion of what the [...] Continue reading »